I should also add, because this is interesting:
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Originally Posted by Doctordick
If you are going to use the index to indicate “loss of information” then the analysis does not seem to make much sense: we start off with “all possible information” and form a flaw-free explanation. We then forget some information and this is to engender a change in that flaw-free explanation but the purpose of an explanation is to reproduce information from subsets of that information. Thus, if we have a flaw-free explanation for “all the information” and then lose some of the information, we can use that explanation to reproduce the lost information. There is thus no required change in the explanation at all.
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Yes, if you consider the change in information to move pastward then the change in information (the loss of info) can be reconstructed with the explanation. Likewise, if we consider the change to be futureward then the change (the addition of info) can be constructed with the explanation. Either way it amounts to predicting the future, which as you rightfully point out, can be done if "all the information" is known. I'd add that the info would need to be deterministic as well.
~modest
EDIT: you posted your reply above while I was making this post. I will reply to your post above...
